'Sergio Leone by Himself', compiled by biographer Christopher Frayling, gathers for the first time all of Leone's significant interviews, essays and articles - many of which have never before appeared in English. What emerges is a director's-eye view of a body of work that over the past half century has had a decisive influence on world cinema. The book is illustrated with previously unseen photographs, posters and related ephemera from the Leone family collection and the Angelo Novi archive.Between the worldwide box-office success of his Dollars trilogy and his untimely death in April 1989 at the age of 60, Sergio Leone gave several interviews to selected film journalists. He also wrote a series of thoughtful essays about his cinematic influences such as Charlie Chaplin, Federico Fellini, Henry Fonda, Robert Aldrich and John Ford. To accompany his final film, 'Once Upon a Time in America' (1984), he published several articles about his obsessive quest to make the film and how it eventually happened. All of these interviews and writings are collected in this lush volume.
